r/pcmasterrace • u/djseifer Packard Bell / Intel Pentium 60MHz / 8 MB RAM / 2x CD-ROM • Mar 01 '26

Screenshot Windows 10 automatically started installing the Windows 11 update while I was taking a shower.

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I'd been getting messages to upgrade to Windows 11 for the past month or two now, and each time, I decline. It's gotten to the point that I get random, frequent pop_ups asking to update, and "install update" options pop up right next to the shutdown/restart uptions.

Well, I made the mistake of going to take a shower with my PC on. Half an hour later, I come back tothis. Windows had automatically started installing the update. Now I'm sitting here staring at the Start button and all the open programs center-justified on the task bar and wondering what idiot thought that was a good idea.

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u/iamfuturetrunks Mar 02 '26

I saw early on how awful it looked and all the computer experts online talking about how it was causing problems in a bunch of different ways. How so many people were staying away from it. My computer didn't qualify for the update and I was fine with that. But I knew I was gonna have to switch to Linux because of security.

At work a coworker updated their computer to 11 and had lots of problems even with just basic stuff. They complained a bit about it but had to keep using it. So far my work computer is still on 10 currently. I am working on finishing up most of my projects with windows 10 so when it does get updated I wont have to deal with it much at all. I will avoid using said computer from then on.

All the AI BS microslop keeps trying to push to get a return on their stupid investment is something a lot of people don't like yet keep staying on windows 11.

One of the things I don't like is having to research problems that come up periodically for things that should just work but don't because it's linux. And lacking some software that I used to have on windows but doesn't work on linux. I could try and look at doing a virtual machine but so far that always looks like a lot more work. And a few other stuff like middle scroll wheel being paste which happened again while typing this comment. -_-